This is the 1/48 Hasagawa F1M "Pete" recon bi-plane. It was a really fun kit and very detailed. The kit is challenging so it's not for beginners, but anyone who has a few kits under their belt would enjoy it. The rigging is part of a seperate PE set offered by Hasagawa and does not come with the kit but is meant soley for this kit. It really adds a great level of detail to the build, but at a cost of increased difficulty, as this is not an easy PE kit to work with.
I opted to not weather this one up and leave it fairly clean as all the photos I could find of this kind of plane showed them in pretty decent condition. Some of the photos were pretty poor so there may have and most likely were some in rough shape, I just didn't see any. Also with the complexity of assembly this kit requires to paint and whatnot, I didn't want to make it more work by weathering it up. So, it's mostly clean.
I completed this build for the Floats and Boats GB. Now that this one is done I can return to my P-40 WIP and get those two knocked out.
I hope you like it. Thanks for looking.
BK
